I stumbled across that, nearly wet myself, and then bought 4.  They had a 2-per-person limit, so I created a second account real quick. ;-)

Question - I have had 4 different computers connected to this pool for a couple weeks now.  The first week-week and a half there were not issues whatsoever.  100% connection, everything running fine.
The past few days have been a different story.  Multiple times a day now one of the computers (completely random on which one will do it when) cgminer gives me one of 2 errors:

either "Stratum connection to pool 0 interrupted"  or "Pool 0 stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:333 not responding!"

Then the last line says

"Waiting for work to be available from pools"

After that it just hangs and does not do anything.  A few times it took me a few hours to find out it was not running, one time it froze right after I headed to bed so it was down all night.   Typically my other computers chug along just fine to the exact same server without issue, or at least hang at a different period of time.

I know when I used cudaminer for my old nvidia cards before my 280x cards showed up, if it was disconnected from a server it would reconnect again after 15 seconds, or at least try and keep trying after 15 seconds.  .  I am not sure what is going on here in cgminer, and if it has a similar auto restart feature that would allow it to reconnect again after losing connection.  Maybe it does and it is not working?  Anyhow I seem to have a LOT of down time the past few days.  If I notice it and then I close it down and restart to the same server, it seems to start right up again no problem. 

I have tried useast and uswest as different bat files.

Also, is there a way to add multiple servers in the bat file to have it switch to another server in a case such as this?  I am just trying to figure out what I need to do to get my best uptime.

Thanks in advance!

Use middlecoin.com:3333 as a failover.

"pools" : [
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://useast.middlecoin.com:3333",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        },
        {
                "url" : "stratum+tcp://middlecoin.com:3333",
                "user" : "xxx",
                "pass" : "xxx"
        }
]
.....
"failover-only" : true,
.....

If your cgminer completely freezes and is unable to fail over I would suggest looking into CGWatcher (if you are on Windows). I had it installed and set it up to restart cgminer after 30 minutes of no submitted shares.

Good luck.

Thank you for the response!  Is that what I type into my bat file?  I guess I just have not seen commands like that when looking into setting up my bat file.  In that case would it be wise to add a 3rd server there like west?  Thanks again for your help - eventually will have quite a few rigs running with a friend and want to make sure they will require as little maintenance as possible to save labor time. 

Anyone else getting about twice the rejects per the norm? I average about 7% raw rejects here as of the past few days.

Also, when is the difficulty going to return to normal? I'm willing to bet it never will go back to 512.

I am guessing difficulty is set that high for the coins being mined (seems like DOGECoin is the coin being mined for the longest).

As for the rejects; I get around 5%. Check the server you are on, make sure it is the closest geographically to you.

Nope, the difficulty was set to 1024 to reduce the load on the servers.  h2o did it about two weeks ago.

main, and west is down.
useast.middlecoin.com is up

amsterdam is up too